Code and video games are slowly garnering appreciation from the art world, with museums like the Smithsonian adding new interactive media to their permanent collections in recent years. Now, Bjorks iPad app for her 2011 album Biophilia has just been accepted into the Museum of Modern Arts (MoMA) own collection, becoming the first app to earn the distinction. MoMA responded well to the design, saying in a statement, The app reflects the artist’s interest in a collaborative process that here included not only other artists, engineers, and musicians, but also splendid amateurs—the people that download and play the app/album.
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